3. International Organisations with Observer Status - by decision of the Energy Charter Conference

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Baltic Sea Region Energy Cooperation (BASREC)

Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC)

CIS Electric Power Council

Economic Cooperation Organization

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

International Atomic Energy Agency

International Energy Agency

International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

The World Bank

World Trade Organization

Enquiry points

Transparency document

“Article 20(3) of the Energy Charter Treaty obliges all Contracting Parties to designate one or more enquiry points to which requests for information about the laws, regulations, judicial decisions and administrative rulings of general application, affecting trade and other matters covered by the Treaty, could be addressed.

Signatories which do not apply the Treaty provisionally may, until its entry into force for that Signatory, be exempted temporarily from designating enquiry points. To date, the following Signatories qualify for such an exemption: Australia and Norway.”

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

The Energy Charter Secretariat and the Secretariat-General of the League of Arab States signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 19 March 2012.

The Energy Charter Secretariat also has signed in November 2007 a Letter of Understanding on Cooperative Activities with the Secretariat of the International Energy Forum.